Recommendations from the 2021 report Enabling Coastal Adaptation: Using current legislative settings for managing the transition to a dynamic adaptive planning regime in New Zealand were an input in the development of…
Disaster messaging is only effective if the population it is intended for embraces it. It can be particularly hard to engage societies with rich cultural and linguistic diversity, such as…
A significant proportion of New Zealand’s population is under increasing threat from sea-level rise – 300,000 residents live below 3m land elevation. Currently the impacts are felt as coastal erosion…
By Rowan Sprague, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Project summary In mid-February 2023, Cyclone Gabrielle struck the North Island of Aotearoa-New Zealand, causing widespread devastation. As part of the cyclone response,…
Student Profile: Alistair Davies 27/02/2018 Meet Alistair Alistair is from the UK, where he studied Geography at the University of Cambridge and worked as a flood consultant before moving to…
Resilience Governance in practice 15/11/2018 By Dr Judy Lawrence, Dr Paul Schneider and Prof Bruce Glavovic A series of severe coastal storms along the Coromandel Peninsula has brought coastal hazard…
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By Richard Smith, Resilience Challenge Director The ten-year anniversary of the February 22nd Christchurch earthquake will be stirring memories for many in Canterbury, and those affected around the country. We…
How can we keep the lights on during and after a natural disaster? 15/03/2018 By Nirmal Nair and Andrew Austin Switching on lights, charging phones, connecting to the internet and…
